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Senko Rašić
Personal blog · blog.senko.net · on HN as senkoprogrammingcareer
Senko Rašić's personal blog at blog.senko.net covers programming and career. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “I Want to Use AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Senko Rašić's blog for Go programming, including learning-Go material, and for a post arguing that writing code was never the hard part of software engineering.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- I Want to Use AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-30
- Open Source is not a business model (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-10
- Open-weights AI models have become good enough2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-22
- Developer convenience, infrastructure cost, and losing the open web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-21
- The future of hybrid and remote work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-23
- "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-08
What Hacker News says?
Yeah the low effort / gratuitous ones (either AI or stock) are jarring. I sometimes put up the hero image on my blog posts if I feel it makes sense, for example: https://blog.senko.net/learn-ai (stock photo, ai-generated or none if I don't have an idea for a visualization that adds to the content)
Comment linking /learn-ai
on “I Am Tired of AI”Submitted Relative popularity of programming languages on Hacker News as a story · 86 points
HN discussionthere's lots of old HN threads and a blog and a couple books to give you the flavor (and yeah some people are less than enthusiastic); also Oreilly and Manning are coming out soon with "In Action" books, you can read a 8 of 14 chapters draft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8332835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356677 http://blog.senko.net/learning-go _________ Books: http://golangbootcamp.com/ http://o…
Comment linking /learning-go
on “Go 1.4 is released”Submitted Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been harping for years to anyone who would listen, Open Source is not a business model [0]. If your motivation for doing open source is money, you're doing it wrong. You'll be much better off just getting a job (and GitHub stars can help with that!). We all know "build it and they will come" and "follow your passion and the money will follow" don't really work in the real world. You have to make something peopl…
Comment linking /open-source-is-not-a-business-model
on “GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)”Submitted Analyzing Jev, a new AI model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs others commented, the article doesn't really talk about edtech, but about introducing smartphones/tables/computers in curriculum in a way that makes it harder to limit their use both at school and at home. From my kids' experience, I agree with the article. But I also want to touch on products. Had a startup in the space[0], and we only achieved commercial success once we started gaining customers outside of EdTe…
Comment linking /the-story-of-a-web-whiteboard
on “The EdTech Revolution Has Failed”Submitted I Want to Use AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCompletely agree. Scaling (and relatedly, high availability) are premature optimizations[0] implemented (and authorized) by people hoping for that sweet hockey stick growth, cargo culting practices needed by companies several orders of magnitude larger. [0] https://blog.senko.net/high-availability-is-premature-optimi...
Comment linking /high-availability-is-premature-optimization
on “Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure?”Submitted Developer convenience, infrastructure cost, and losing the open web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe article is full with interesting nuggets of wisdom, but I found it all over the place, as it mixes several issues (all of them important) into one. The article mentiones "high-value" projects (vs "low-value" projects), but the actual distinction made is between high-effort (new framework, new kind of product) and low-effort. Value and effort are not neccessarily correlated, indeed by the end of the article the t…
Comment linking /bridges-vs-apps
on “Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)”Submitted Developer convenience, infrastructure cost, and losing the open web as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBending Spoons is on a buying spree! Miro acquired my startup back in '21[0], so this is bittersweet as our users will be (eventually) affected by this. Founders and employees at Miro definitely deserve to cash out for their hard work and it's unclear (ie. not publicly known) if they will since this is a 10x down round. Also weird that they had to sell - they were one of the most established (visual) collaboration p…
Comment linking /the-story-of-a-web-whiteboard
on “Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B”Submitted The story of A Web Whiteboard (AWWapp) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis post, like many others, confuses AI with Big Tech (or maybe that's intentional). I can wholehartedly agree with everything said there, if I mentally replace "AI" with "big tech profitmaxxing using this new tech". I however, don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater: https://blog.senko.net/how-i-want-to-use-ai
Comment linking /how-i-want-to-use-ai
on “To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks”Submitted Open Source is not a business model as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI stopped at "The hard part of software engineering was never writing the code." Better read https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-in...
Comment linking /code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
on “Is it all just vapourware?”Submitted "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot really an ELI5, but it you really want to understand the topic, I've gathered the best resources I could find to help me do the same: https://blog.senko.net/learn-ai If you're a programmer, start with Karpathy's video series. For a somewhat gentler intro, take a look at the MIT intro lectures first to build up on the fundamentals. Then you're ready for The Illustrated Transformer, and afterwards, if you're brave…
Comment linking /learn-ai
on “Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 Transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper”Submitted The Clock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI write very infrequently, but here it is: https://blog.senko.net
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Learn AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYup, two. A personal one at https://blog.senko.net/ (general and more opinionated stuff) and more corpo oriented at https://senkorasic.com/articles/
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on “LinkedIn CringeBot 3000”Submitted The future of hybrid and remote work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLinkedIn in particular is quite aggressively blocking any automated attempts to read or navigate through it. I post quite a lot there and wanted to have a copy of my posts on my blog[0] to preserve them. For a few months I was able to use a headless browser + claude code, then LI wised up and started logging it out, so I had to use a regular Chrome, log in manually and then tell the LLM to take over and slowly go th…
Comment linking /may-quick-takes
on “What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI?”Submitted Bridges vs. Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital hygiene as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open-weights AI models have become good enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source is not a business model (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open-weights AI models have become good enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussion